LOU THERESE ELISABETH BRANDNER

Dottoressa di ricerca

ciclo: XXXIII



Titolo della tesi: The Social Capital of Creative Freelancers. Networking Practices in Digital and Urban Spheres

This study explores how freelancers in the creative and cultural industries (CCI) create, utilise and maintain social capital in the context of highly flexibilised, deregulated and digitalised labour markets. CCI freelancers organise their own workplace, working schedule and social security. Regardless of widespread precarity, they commonly perceive their working conditions as an autonomous choice to enjoy the privilege of working creatively. In relational, project-based working environments, their main way to find employment opportunities and reduce risk are social relationships. Their networking practices potentially lead to an intertwinement of private and professional spheres as well as digital and physical connections, and therefore to specific forms of sociality. Combining interviewing techniques with social media content analysis and social network analysis, the project focuses on freelance creatives in Rome, Italy, and Berlin, Germany. Interviews were conducted with 31 creative freelancers living or working in the neighbourhoods of San Lorenzo and Pigneto in Rome as well as Kreuzberg and Neukölln in Berlin. These data were analysed with a grounded theory approach. Additionally, creative freelancers’ urban surroundings, networks and social media content were analysed with a network-ethnographic perspective to networking practices in digital and urban spaces. Findings imply that within the sample, the creation, utilisation and maintenance of social capital constitute continuous tasks throughout the careers of creative freelancers. Berlin’s urban space as a networking environment is more professionalised and adapted to the needs of the “creative class” compared to Rome’s more improvised yet more tight-knit creative scene. The relationship of social capital and the digital sphere appears to be shifting, with social media platforms increasingly serving the purpose of bonding on a more personal level with audiences through curated displays of intimacy. Constant networking as an integral part of the entrepreneurial ethos of creative professions overall leads to a profound blurring of personal and private spheres for creative freelancers.

Produzione scientifica

11573/1566750 - 2021 - The Role Of Educational Institutions In Creative Freelance Networking Practices
Brandner, Lou Therese Elisabeth - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: 2nd International Conference of the Journal “Scuola Democratica”: Reinventing Education (Online)
libro: Book of Abstracts of the International Conference of the Journal Scuola Democratica. Reinventing Education - (978-88-944888-4-5)

11573/1569404 - 2021 - Sociality entangled. Freelance creative labour and digital networking
Brandner, Lou Therese Elisabeth - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
congresso: Unboxing AI. Understanding Artificial Intelligence (Virtuale)
libro: Unboxing AI. Understanding artificial intelligence - (978-88-6835-429-9)

11573/1649703 - 2021 - When one becomes two. Man–machine hybridization in urban cyclists with broken bikes
Brandner, Lou Therese Elisabeth - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: TRANSFERS (Oxford : Berghahn Journals, 2011-) pp. 105-119 - issn: 2045-4813 - wos: WOS:000813401700006 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85131450726 (0)

11573/1583283 - 2021 - Airbnb’s 'home sharer’ narrative in Berlin and Rome. Neoliberal city, platform citizenship and digital labour
Brandner, Lou Therese Elisabeth; Parisi, Stefania - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: 8th European communication conference (Online)
libro: ECREA 2021 – Electronic Abstract Book - (978-80-908364-0-2)

11573/1483511 - 2019 - Obsolete Dichotomies? Sociological Research and Political Bias
Brandner, Lou Therese Elisabeth - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
congresso: a III Conferenza Nazionale delle Dottorande e dei Dottorandi in Scienze Sociali (Rome, Italy)
libro: Atti della III Conferenza Nazionale delle Dottorande e dei Dottorandi in Scienze Sociali 13-14 Settembre 2018 - (978-88-9377-127-6)

11573/1338397 - 2019 - Airbnb And The Platform City: An Ambiguous Overlap Between Digital Workers And Citizens
Brandner, Lou Therese Elisabeth; Parisi, Stefania - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: 14th ESA Conference, Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging (Manchester, United Kingdom)
libro: Abstract Book | 14th ESA Conference | Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging - (978-2-9569087-0-8)

11573/1192579 - 2018 - Italian Creatives: Networking Practices in the Transforming Urban Space
Brandner, Lou Therese Elisabeth - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: ESA/RN27 Mid-Term Conference Catania 2018 (Catania)
libro: ESA/RN27 Mid-Term Conference Catania 2018 Book of Abstract - ()

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